Underwater
Underwater
Watercolors glimmer in the sky for twilight's final gloaming
Another day finished with the moon rising in pale silver
The ocean became a changeling, pulsing from blue to black
The icy northern wind blew and I began to walk into the frigid water
Morphine and absinthe are a magic potion I had poured into my waiting body
Cold caused numbness without and the potion numbed everything within
As my body drifted under the water I suddenly felt the break
The snapping of the ethereal cord that binds our soul to our bodies
My heart and lungs stopped as my body was forever lost to the raging sea
My soul instinctively followed the ethereal cord to my new eternal destination beyond our physical realm
"I'm sorry I failed" my mind whispered, for now I was pure energy and no longer needed a mouth to form words
I hadn't been able to remember enough while had lived my life on earth
But I had tried. I had tried so hard. With all that I was and all that I'd been, I'd tried
Suddenly it began to rain feathers of many brilliant hues
Gabriel, Michael, Uriel, Raphael and Barachiel had long ago ascended to realms so lofty that those of us still incarnating on earth could not directly communicate with them, even in non physical form
But it would seem they could send a gift now and then
The feathers of their wings were a rather grand gift for failure
"What you saw as failure was perhaps just the hardest path of all, the path no one could bear to ask of you", a courus of voices whispered all around me. "Go now and embrace the family, friends and pets from your life, as now they anxiously await you"
A relief and warmth I'd never known suddenly surrounded me, and in the distance I began to see all the ones I'd loved and lost in the physical life I'd just departed
Maybe "failure" was just an illusion conjured up by a world still too young, selfish and materialistic
A lesson learned, a bit of progress made, these are never failures
Be at peace
Always
You have nothing to fear Ξ